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Hillary Nye (JSD 16'), a legal philosopher at the University of Alberta, in an interview on Legal-Phi.

How was grad school in legal philosophy?

Hillary: I loved it. It was such a transformative and happy period of my life. I won’t lie; it was stressful and difficult. But I was very fortunate to land in a program surrounded by wonderful people, many of whom are some of my closest friends to this day. It also helped that NYU provided us with a physical space in which to work. That meant that people came there regularly, and we really built a community. Every day when I came in I got to see the faces of dear friends, and I cannot overstate the importance of that support for my ability to thrive during those years. There was always someone there to read a draft, puzzle through an idea with me, or talk me down from my more anxious moments. I feel lucky that I got to spend five years of my life just thinking about things that interest me, and doing so with interlocutors and friends who pushed me to put forward the best versions of my ideas.

Hillary Nye: Immodesty Eliminated This month we are interviewing Hillary Nye. Hillary received her JSD from NYU in 2016 and then took a research fellowship at LSE. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Law at the University of…

Congratulations to Alon Agmon for a successful defense of his dissertation ‘The Question of The Common Good In Law and Politics: A Philosophical Inquiry’ this morning at NYU School of Law. A wonderful and lively discussion with Jeremy Waldron, Liam Murphy, and Lewis Kornhauser.

Felipe Jiménez defends his dissertation offering a pluralist theory of contract law.

Discussing “Natural Law Reading of the Constitution” with Santiago Legarre

Felipe Jiménez discusses "Is Breach of Contract a Wrong? An Instrumentalist Perspective" at the JSD forum, with Rebecca Stone and Liam Murphy

Joseph Weiler explains how to (not) write a doctorate in law.

Deep Disagreements - International Conference People are frequently at odds over issues that equally concern them. Many disagreements that are central to political, social, ideological or religious conflicts are deep in the sense that they can neither be resolved through a compelling argument nor by gathering further infor­mation, nor do they a...

Daniel Viehoff discusses Alon Agmon’s Interpersonal Tradeoffs and the Common Good Condition at the JSD forum, with Jeremy Waldron and John Ferejohn

Be sure not to miss the Conference for the Colloquium in Legal, Political & Social Philosophy. September 7-8.
Speakers: Thomas Scanlon, Frank Michelman, Seana Shiffrin, and Joseph Raz

A warm welcome to our new JSDs!
(Thanks Michele Krech for the picture)